May
9
4:00 PM16:00
Jun
13
4:00 PM16:00
Presentation Wednesday
Presentation Wednesdays offer students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers
Jun
28
to Jun 29
Script, print, and letterforms in global contexts: the visual and the material
Two-day conference, from Thursday 28 – Friday 29 June 2018, to be held at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
Jul
11
4:00 PM16:00
Jul
12
9:00 AM09:00
Printing for the workplace: industrial and business publishing
In conjunction with CPHC, Print Networks is organising a one-day conference that will consider the design, production and distribution of ‘industrial and business publishing’.
Jul
19
to Jul 20
Letterpress printing: past, present, future
Call for papers for AHRC-funded conference looking at the role of letterpress printing, past, present and into the future
Sep
13
to Sep 14
Women in Print: production, distribution and consumption
In conjunction with Winterbourne House and Garden, the Centre for Printing History and Culture is organising a two-day international conference, which aims to review and reassess the contribution made by women to printing and print culture from its origins to the present day.
Oct
18
to Oct 19
Baskerville in France
In conjunction with L’École supérieure d’art et de design d’Amiens (esad), the Centre for Printing History & Culture (cphc) is organising a two-day international conference which aims to review and reassess the relationship between Baskerville—the man and the typeface—and France and the French.
Jan
14
to Feb 28
The Arab Modern: a century of print design in Egypt
a retrospective look at over one hundred years of print design in Egypt.
Apr
6
10:00 AM10:00
Workshop 3: Letterpress in the Digital Age
This is the third in the series of AHRC-Funded workshops, part of the Letterpress Printing: past, present and future project
Mar
13
12:30 PM12:30
John Baskerville: the stop-start career of an eighteenth-century IT entrepreneur
The University of Birmingham’s Arts & Science Festival is a week-long celebration of research, culture and collaboration across campus and beyond. It is is an opportunity for curious minds to delve into new thinking from leading academics.
Feb
14
4:00 PM16:00
Presentation Wednesday
Presentation Wednesdays offer students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers
Jan
10
4:00 PM16:00
Dec
13
4:00 PM16:00
Presentation Wednesdays
Presentation Wednesdays offer students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers
Dec
7
6:00 PM18:00
Baskerville in objects
Edited by Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick, and published by Liverpool University Press, this is the first book to be published on the Birmingham printer for over forty years. It places Baskerville within his local, national and global context as a figure of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
This will be an informal event to launch the book and will include a talk by Susan Whyman, podcast and radio boradcast. All are welcome to join us and bring festive nibbles and refreshments, including wine or soft drinks, if you wish.
Dec
1
to Feb 28
CFP: Script, print, and letterforms in global contexts: the visual and the material
Call for papers for a two-day conference, from Thursday 28 – Friday 29 June 2018, to be held at Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
Nov
17
9:00 AM09:00
Workshop 2: Using letterpress
Sharing ways in which historic printing is – and might be – used in research, practice and teaching.
Nov
15
4:00 PM16:00
Nov
1
9:30 PM21:30
John Baskerville: life and legacy
A celebratory exhibtion of Baskerville's life and work.
Nov
1
2:00 PM14:00
A Baskerville Celebration
This interdisciplinary symposium provides an original contribution to printing history, eighteenth-century studies and the dissemination of ideas.
Oct
11
4:00 PM16:00
Presentation Wednesdays
Presentation Wednesdays offer students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers.
Oct
8
9:00 AM09:00
Baskerville Sunday
As part of Birmingham's Literature Festival, Sunday 8 October has been designated 'Baskerville Day.'
Sep
29
9:30 AM09:30
Workshop 1: The State of Historical Letterpress
This Workshop explores how the rich history of printing is related to the survival of historic equipment.
Sep
2
to Sep 3
Baskerville Society: Wells Cathedral Library and the Jim Attridge Collection
The Baskerville Society is delighted to announce that its next event will be a vist to the Chained Library at Wells Cathedral, Somerset.
Jul
21
9:00 AM09:00
Print Networks Conference
Print, politics and publishing: the role of the provincial press
Jun
30
2:00 PM14:00
CPHC Annual Symposium
This year we look at the question: what constitutes printing history and what is print culture?
Jun
14
to Jul 20
Accidental Historians
A summer school for those how found themselves working as historians by accident rather than design
May
10
4:00 PM16:00
Presentation Wednesdays
Presentation Wednesdays offer doctoral students a chance to develop their ideas in a supportive environment of their peers
Apr
5
1:30 PM13:30
Book History Research Network Study Day
This one-day workshop will explore collaborative book production from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Apr
3
6:00 PM18:00
Mar
30
to Mar 31
From Craft to Technology and Back Again: print’s progress in the twentieth century
The Centre for Printing History & Culture, in conjunction with the Printing Historical Society and the National Print Museum.
Mar
20
6:00 PM18:00
Professor Karin Barber: Confessions of a courtesan
Print culture, popular readership and the emergence of a genre in colonial Lagos
Mar
13
6:00 PM18:00
Type Talk: Phil Abel: What I’ve been doing at work: some snaps from the Hand & Eye photo album
Phil Abel provides a glimpse in the the year in the life of Hand & Eye Letterpress.
Feb
20
6:00 PM18:00
Type Talk: Toshi Omagari: Myths of science and practice in typeface design
Toshi Omagari discusses validity of what he was taught as type design student and tries to debunk myths in typeface design.
Jan
16
6:00 PM18:00
Type Talk: Trine Rask: Reading and writing text
Trine Rask talks about her typeface North, a book typeface optimized for the Scandinavian languages, and her other founts Covergirl, Rum and Karen.
Dec
13
10:30 PM22:30
Baskerville Society: Visit to Lichfield Cathedral Library
Join the Baskerville Society for a private tour of Lichfield Cathedral library and view it's significant holdings of manuscripts and books
Dec
12
6:00 PM18:00
Type Talk: Jonathan Barnbrook: A Barnbrook super deluxe ultra karaoke megamix.
Jonathan Barnbrook summarises his career up until this point.
Nov
14
6:00 PM18:00
Type Talk: Adrian Shaughnessy: The graphic designer as writer, editor and publisher
Adrian Shaughnessy describes his professional journey and how, despite radically changing his career path, he retains the outlook of a graphic designer.
Nov
3
to Nov 4
Printers Unite!
On the 90th and 30th anniversaries of the General Strike and the Wapping Dispute, this two-day conference at the Marx Memorial Library will explore the role of printers and print as agents and vehicles of protest.